The theory of embodied mind is relevant in a corpus of studies that focus on the ways music is processed and produced, and on the role it plays in human cognition and everyday life. Human experience of music is tied to the ways movement and sound stimulation resonate first in the body-mind complex; it is afterwards that conscious involvement takes place. The movement and the image-schematic-based processes of understanding - that are sensory-motor and preconceptual in nature ? are some of the embodied forms that shape the practice of meaning in human experience.